RFR: 7152186: java.awt.HeadlessException when running AWT apps [macosx]

[Chris Hegarty]

On 08/03/2012 12:44, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> The fix looks fine to me.

+1, thanks for resolving this.

-Chris.

>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
> On 3/8/2012 4:15 PM, Michael McMahon wrote:
>> Can I get the following webrev reviewed for JDK8 please?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/7152186/webrev.1/
>>
>> It is for the issue reported a few days ago where a HeadlessException
>> is being thrown in AWT. So, we'd like to fix this issue in JDK rather
>> than Hotspot.
>> This change makes the Mac AWT toolkits compatible (in terms of
>> location) with
>> other platforms (eg was jre/lib/xawt/libawt_xawt.dylib -->
>> jre/lib/libawt_xawt.dylib)
>> - same for the lwawt and headless toolkits.
>>
>> The libraries will now be named:
>>
>> jre/lib/libawt_headless.dylib
>> jre/lib/libawt_lwawt.dylib
>> jre/lib/libawt_xawt.dylib
>>
>> I'd like to push this change today. After it has been pushed, then the
>> patch
>> I sent yesterday (to hotspot) should be removed, if anyone has applied
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael.